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Well-known Indian restaurant founder dies
Huang Lijie | The Straits Times | Tue Mar 23 2010
Restaurateur Parvinder Singh, founder of popular Indian restaurant Kinara, died yesterday after battling various ailments.
Singapore, March 23, 2010
Restaurateur Parvinder Singh, 47, founder of popular Indian restaurant Kinara, died yesterday after battling various ailments, including heart problems, for two years.
Fans of the local TV soap opera series, Masters Of The Sea, will remember him as the handsome character, Dr Gupta.
Mr Singh made his name in the restaurant business after he opened Hazara in Holland Village in 1992.
His was the first restaurant here to serve “North Frontier” cuisine, or Punjabi and North Indian food.
It was later renamed Kinara Contemporary Indian Cuisine.
At the peak, around 2002, his restaurant empire included Fez, a lounge bar in Boat Quay, a home delivery food service, two Kinara restaurants in Singapore and a Kinara branch in Jakarta.
The son of taxi drivers, he graduated from New Zealand’s Victoria University in computer science and worked as an IT manager here before answering an entrepreneurial urge to start a restaurant.
Escalating operation costs forced him to sell off his food and beverage outlets in 2005.
But he remained in F&B and ran a catering business before going to India in 2007 to open a restaurant.
He suffered two heart attacks while there. He called off the project and returned in 2008. He was in and out of hospitals thereafter and his health was poor.
He underwent surgery on March 13 for a perforated colon and did not recover from the operation.
He is survived by younger sister Sarbindir, 46; and two sons, Shaan, 18, and Tyaan, 14, from a previous marriage to a New Zealander.
Ms Jagjit Kaur, 40, a former restaurant employee, said: “He was a caring boss. He will be missed.”
Huang Lijie | The Straits Times | Tue Mar 23 2010
Restaurateur Parvinder Singh, founder of popular Indian restaurant Kinara, died yesterday after battling various ailments.
Singapore, March 23, 2010
Restaurateur Parvinder Singh, 47, founder of popular Indian restaurant Kinara, died yesterday after battling various ailments, including heart problems, for two years.
Fans of the local TV soap opera series, Masters Of The Sea, will remember him as the handsome character, Dr Gupta.
Mr Singh made his name in the restaurant business after he opened Hazara in Holland Village in 1992.
His was the first restaurant here to serve “North Frontier” cuisine, or Punjabi and North Indian food.
It was later renamed Kinara Contemporary Indian Cuisine.
At the peak, around 2002, his restaurant empire included Fez, a lounge bar in Boat Quay, a home delivery food service, two Kinara restaurants in Singapore and a Kinara branch in Jakarta.
The son of taxi drivers, he graduated from New Zealand’s Victoria University in computer science and worked as an IT manager here before answering an entrepreneurial urge to start a restaurant.
Escalating operation costs forced him to sell off his food and beverage outlets in 2005.
But he remained in F&B and ran a catering business before going to India in 2007 to open a restaurant.
He suffered two heart attacks while there. He called off the project and returned in 2008. He was in and out of hospitals thereafter and his health was poor.
He underwent surgery on March 13 for a perforated colon and did not recover from the operation.
He is survived by younger sister Sarbindir, 46; and two sons, Shaan, 18, and Tyaan, 14, from a previous marriage to a New Zealander.
Ms Jagjit Kaur, 40, a former restaurant employee, said: “He was a caring boss. He will be missed.”
